Zhi Lin

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Zhi Lin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhi Lin has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Organic Chemistry and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Zhi Lin's work include Click Chemistry and Applications (7 papers), Protein Degradation and Inhibitors (5 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (5 papers). Zhi Lin is often cited by papers focused on Click Chemistry and Applications (7 papers), Protein Degradation and Inhibitors (5 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (5 papers). Zhi Lin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Zhi Lin's co-authors include Xue Gao, Ning Sun, Liwei Chen, David R. Liu, Maarten H. Geurts, Shannon M. Miller, Weixin Tang, Johnny H. Hu, Holly A. Rees and Peng R. Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Zhi Lin

25 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Evolved Cas9 variants with broad PAM compatibility and high DNA specificity

2018 1.2k citations Johnny H. Hu, Shannon M. Miller et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhi Lin United States	14	1.6k	325	269	175	142	27	1.8k
Weixin Tang United States	18	2.3k 1.4×	172 0.5×	349 1.3×	189 1.1×	182 1.3×	33	2.7k
B W. Thuronyi United States	10	1.1k 0.7×	135 0.4×	276 1.0×	118 0.7×	65 0.5×	16	1.3k
Shannon J. Sirk United States	18	995 0.6×	53 0.2×	273 1.0×	143 0.8×	66 0.5×	23	1.3k
Antonio Casini Italy	15	831 0.5×	98 0.3×	154 0.6×	46 0.3×	83 0.6×	45	1.1k
Kanae Sasaki Japan	15	854 0.5×	46 0.1×	111 0.4×	57 0.3×	49 0.3×	26	1.2k
Masao Mochizuki Japan	13	1.6k 1.0×	11 0.0×	274 1.0×	206 1.2×	92 0.6×	18	1.7k
Derek Jantz United States	15	980 0.6×	21 0.1×	263 1.0×	308 1.8×	70 0.5×	21	1.2k
Abigail R. Lambert United States	11	975 0.6×	151 0.5×	150 0.6×	55 0.3×	14 0.1×	16	1.2k
Lianru Zhang China	17	634 0.4×	77 0.2×	103 0.4×	54 0.3×	24 0.2×	35	1.1k
Lionel Guittat France	21	2.2k 1.4×	152 0.5×	73 0.3×	96 0.5×	11 0.1×	36	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhi Lin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhi Lin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhi Lin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zhi Lin. Zhi Lin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lin, Zhi, Wayne Ngo, Yu‐Ting Chou, et al.. (2025). Temporal photoproximity labeling of ligand-activated EGFR neighborhoods using MultiMap. Nature Chemical Biology. 22(2). 192–204.

Lin, Zhi, Mark J. S. Kelly, Yibing Wu, et al.. (2025). De Novo Design of Proteins That Bind Naphthalenediimides, Powerful Photooxidants with Tunable Photophysical Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(9). 7849–7858. 2 indexed citations

Peng, Anjie, et al.. (2025). Approximating High-Order Adversarial Attacks Using Runge-Kutta Methods. Tsinghua Science & Technology. 30(5). 1927–1939. 1 indexed citations

Leung, Kevin, Kaitlin Schaefer, Zhi Lin, Zi Yao, & James A. Wells. (2025). Engineered Proteins and Chemical Tools to Probe the Cell Surface Proteome. Chemical Reviews. 125(8). 4069–4110. 5 indexed citations

Ngo, Wayne, Julia Peukes, Zhiwei Xue, et al.. (2024). Mechanism-guided engineering of a minimal biological particle for genome editing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(1). e2413519121–e2413519121. 8 indexed citations

Morstein, Johannes, Vickie Bowcut, Yue Yang, et al.. (2024). Targeting Ras-, Rho-, and Rab-family GTPases via a conserved cryptic pocket. Cell. 187(22). 6379–6392.e17. 13 indexed citations

Lin, Zhi, Kaitlin Schaefer, Irene Lui, et al.. (2024). Multiscale photocatalytic proximity labeling reveals cell surface neighbors on and between cells. Science. 385(6706). eadl5763–eadl5763. 43 indexed citations

Wang, Zhe, Dan Chen, Dongchao Xie, et al.. (2022). Metabolomic characterization of the chemical compositions of Dracocephalum rupestre Hance. Food Research International. 161. 111871–111871. 16 indexed citations

Lin, Zhi & Christina M. Woo. (2022). Methods to characterize and discover molecular degraders in cells. Chemical Society Reviews. 51(16). 7115–7137. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhi, Dacheng Shen, Bo Yang, & Christina M. Woo. (2022). Molecular and Structural Characterization of Lenalidomide-Mediated Sequestration of eIF3i. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(11). 3229–3237. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhi, et al.. (2021). A Chemoproteomics Approach to Profile Phospholipase D-Derived Phosphatidyl Alcohol Interactions. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(12). 3276–3283. 14 indexed citations

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Hu, Johnny H., Shannon M. Miller, Maarten H. Geurts, et al.. (2018). Evolved Cas9 variants with broad PAM compatibility and high DNA specificity. Nature. 556(7699). 57–63. 1155 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Shuai, Dan He, Zhi Lin, et al.. (2017). Conditional Chaperone–Client Interactions Revealed by Genetically Encoded Photo-cross-linkers. Accounts of Chemical Research. 50(5). 1184–1192. 22 indexed citations

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Fan, Xinyuan, Yun Ge, Feng Lin, et al.. (2016). Optimized Tetrazine Derivatives for Rapid Bioorthogonal Decaging in Living Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(45). 14046–14050. 147 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhi, Cheng Li, Dong Meng, Yan Li, & Zhaohui Wang. (2016). Hybrid Corannulene–Perylene Dyes: Facile Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 11(19). 2695–2699. 20 indexed citations

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Yao, Defan, Zhi Lin, & Junchen Wu. (2016). Near-Infrared Fluorogenic Probes with Polarity-Sensitive Emission for in Vivo Imaging of an Ovarian Cancer Biomarker. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 8(9). 5847–5856. 45 indexed citations

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Li, Cheng, Zhi Lin, Yan Li, & Zhaohui Wang. (2016). Synthesis and Applications of π-Extended Naphthalene Diimides. The Chemical Record. 16(2). 873–885. 30 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yuan, Wanhong Liu, Lien Xiang, et al.. (2014). Overexpression of artemisinic aldehyde Δ11 (13) reductase gene–enhanced artemisinin and its relative metabolite biosynthesis in transgenic Artemisia annua L.. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. 62(1). 17–23. 30 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhi. (2000). Functional Expression of Horseradish Peroxidase in E. coli by Directed Evolution. Biotechnology Progress. 16(4). 680–680. 1 indexed citations

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Joo, Hyun, Akira Arisawa, Zhi Lin, & Frances H. Arnold. (1999). A high-throughput digital imaging screen for the discovery and directed evolution of oxygenases. Chemistry & Biology. 6(10). 699–706. 63 indexed citations

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